Kenley is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the

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county of

Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to ...

. It is located in remote countryside, atop a ridge at around above sea level. It is near the larger villages of

Acton Burnell Acton Burnell is a village and parish in the English county of Shropshire. Home to Concord College, it is also famous for an early meeting of Parliament where the Statute merchant was passed in 1283. The population at the 2011 census was 544. ...

, about three miles to the north-west, and

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, about two miles to the east. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 258. The_Farmhouse_at_Church_Farm_-_geograph

The name is probably formed from the

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

personal name ''Cenna'' with ''-ley'', meaning a clearing in a wood.Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.102 To the west are the hamlets of Ruckley and Langley, which form a separate civil parish. The historian Archibald Alison and statistician

William Farr William Farr CB (30 November 1807 – 14 April 1883) was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. Early life William Farr was born in Kenley, Shropshire, to poor parents. He was effectively adopted b ...

were born in Kenley.

Notable people

* Archibald Alison, (1757-1839), Scots essayist, onetime parish rector. *

Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet, (29 December 179223 May 1867) was an England-born Scottish advocate (attorney) and historian. He held several prominent legal appointments. He was the younger son of the Episcopalian cleric and author Archib ...

, (1792-1867),

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and advocate, his son *

, (1807-1883), statistician

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Villages in Shropshire Civil parishes in Shropshire {{Shropshire-geo-stub

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